One of my favorite films of last year.

Ron Howard teamed up with A Beautiful Mind's Brian Grazer do a fantastic job with this modern western.

Cate Blanchett & Tommy Lee Jones are fantastic in this movie.

I hope it gets some awards tonight (Oscar) but unfortunately LOTR will probably dominate which isn't fair since it was filmed 3 years ago.

Just because they released it in 3 parts does not mean it should get the same/similar awards for 3 years in a row IMO.

Anyway I digress...

Synopsis: a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (who is 13) is snatched by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father appears suddenly, offering help. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/missing,the/index.html

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I'm not sure if you will like it burble but I did. Normally I hate westerns but this one is different.

I do the free rental thing too when I can.

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Oscars are just pathetic. I won't watch them, and I don't think that winning an Oscar is all that impressive because it's just a bullshit award.

That being said. Return of the King has NONE of the actor/actress awards, which is Bizarre. . . it's also not nominated for Cinematography, which just proves once and for all that the Academy is blind as well as stupid.

Unfortunately The Missing isn't nominated in any category. This does not mean that it is a bad film. It just means that they had to give a spot for The Last Samuri because it was a Tom Cruise venture.

I'm glad Seabiscuit is nominated for some though, including best picture. That's a damn good film.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

and how many awards has LOTR gotten so far? even though all of the movies have been exactly the same (similarly crappy, in my opinion, but i digress)...after the third time, nothing is an 'outstanding achievement' anymore...

He is as dumb as a brick. I can't stand listening to him talk.

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and he's a pretty damn good actor, whether you like him of not. i think guys just hate him because they feel he's a threat to their cock. same reason guys always say leonardo dicaprio is gay.

Not a threat to my cock at all.

I hate the movies he picks. Jerry Mcguire, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Born on Fourth of July, Mission Impossible, etc. eegads...

I did like him in Vanilla Sky and of course Risky Business is a classic. I like Minority Rerport but not his acting or lack of.

I'll take your word about Samauri being good...

You should listen to him talk then because he is a moron and a goof. Plus when he talks about his religion omg how annoying.

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I didn't think Vanilla Sky was great but I thought he was decent in it.

What? You are different from me? Say it ain't so!

What Tom Cruise movies do you think are great besides Samauri? Name 3 heh.

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I'm sure I would hate them too but never saw them either.

It does not have any bearing on my sanity.

Thanks for your effort though. At least you make me lol everyday when I read your foolish comments.

[ 02-29-2004: Message edited by: Cacophonous ]

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Sorry, I must not have caught the talking pig movie and haven't seen the litte mermaid for over a decade. I guess your opinion of me went down, darn

As far as if Vanilla Sky was a bomb or not I really don't know but I saw it and Minority Report because I like science fiction type films and I didn't see Days of Thunder or Top Gun because as I said I'm not into those all American type movies.

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oh, and top gun and days of thunder.

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Tom Cruise has been in many sucessful movies but he is not considered a great actor by most people. You go see a movie because Tom Hanks is in it you don't go see a movie because Tom Cruise is in it.

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His dyslexia aside, he's a dim bulb none the less. Then again, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to "act".

Tom Cruise only gets to learn about getting leverage over John Travolta

(okay, that last was a REALLY bad L. Ron Hubbard/Scientology reference)

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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...and how many awards has LOTR gotten so far?

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2002 - The Fellowship of the Ring:

- Cinematography
- Makeup
- Music (Score)
- Visual Effects

2003 - The Two Towers:

- Sound Editing
- Visual Effects

2004 - Return of the King:

- Art Direction
- Costume Design
- Directing
- Film Editing
- Makeup
- Music (Score)
- Best Picture
- Sound Mixing
- Visual Effects
- Adapted Screenplay

This is the first time that a fantasy movie has won Best Picture. And it fucking deserved it, regardless of the other movies that came out in the last year.

[ 03-02-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ]

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

I just commented that it was up for awards for three years but really it was one movie.

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Originally posted by Serengeti:
"Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one."

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Tolkien also further de-lineated the story by seperating each Novel into two books. Similar to the serial novels of the early 20th century.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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Originally posted by outrider:
PS: Matchstick Men is good too!

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Cool I'll check that one out.

Burble - I disagree about LOTR. I never thought I would like them before I saw them because I normally hate that genre of movie but they were excellent. Each one better than the prior movie.

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Originally posted by AcidWarp:
Cac, I see your point, but I disagree. Tolkien wrote them as three individual novels.

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Actually AW the very first line in the Millenium Edition says LOTR "is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes."

And while I think the movies were excellent and deserving of many awards, I somehow feel that maybe they should have been judged as one movie unless each part could have stood on its own. As Burb pointed out two didn't have complete endings.

[ 03-03-2004: Message edited by: crash ]

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Shhhheeee-it!

I want 2/3 of my money back.

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I know that. . . as I HAVE that edition. But I chose to ignore it for the purposes of arguing with Cac. I still maintain that each, section, if you will, can be taken independent of the others.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”